# KT

KT, kT or kt may refer to:

## Arts and media

* KT Bush Band, group formed by musician Kate Bush
* KT (film), a 2002 Japanese political thriller film, based on the real-life kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung
* Karlstads-Tidningen (KT), a Swedish newspaper released in Karlstad
* Knight (chess), a board game piece (as used in notation)

## Businesses and organizations

* KT Corporation, a telecommunications company in South Korea, formerly Korea Telecom
* Kataller Toyama, a football club in Japan
* Kensington Temple, a Pentecostal church in west London, UK
* Koei Tecmo, a holding company created in 2009 by the merger of Japanese video game companies Koei and Tecmo
* AirAsia Cambodia (IATA code KT)
* Birgenair (IATA code KT), a former Turkish charter airline company with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey

## People

* Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz [pl] (active mid-late 20th century), dissident Polish journalist known as K.T., brother of film educator Jerzy Toeplitz
* KT Manu Musliar (born 1934), Indian Islamic scholar, orator, and writer
* K. T. McFarland (born 1951), American government official and political commentator
* K. T. Oslin (1942–2020), American country music singer and songwriter
* K.T. Sankaran (born 1954), Indian judge
* KT Sullivan, American singer and actress
* KT Tunstall (born 1975), Scottish singer-songwriter

## Places

* KT postcode area, UK, covering south west London and north Surrey in England
* Christmas Island [NATO country code: KT], an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean
* Kastoria, Greece (vehicle plate code KT)
* Katy, Texas, named after the railroad line Kansas-Texas-Missouri
* Kitzingen, Germany (vehicle plate code KT)
* Kuala Terengganu, a city in Malaysia
* Kutina, Croatia (vehicle plate code KT)
* Tarnów, Poland (vehicle plate code KT)

## Science and technology
### Physics and chemistry

* Kt, karat or Carat, in analyzing gold alloys
* kT (energy), in physics, used as a scaling factor for energy values in molecular-scale systems
* Kilotesla (kT), a unit of magnetic flux density
* Kiloton (kt), a measure of energy released in explosions
* motor torque constant (K$_T$)
* Knot (unit), a unit of velocity (although "kn" is the preferred symbol)
* Kosterlitz–Thouless transition in statistical mechanics

### Vehicles

* Kriegstransporter, a series of World War II German merchant ships (KT 1 - KT 62), such as KT 3
* King Tiger, a German tank designed during World War II
* KT for Krylatyj Tank, the Antonov A-40 tank, also nicknamed the "flying tank" or "winged tank"

### Medicine

* Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome, a rare congenital medical condition in which blood vessels and/or lymph vessels fail to form properly.

### Other uses in science and technology

* KT Event - Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event or K-Pg event, formerly known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary or KT event, a mass extinction of species approximately 66 million years ago
* K–Pg boundary, formerly the K-T boundary, geologic abbreviation for the transition between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods
* Kardashev scale, method of measuring an advanced civilization's level of technological advancement
* Kotlin (programming language), a programming language for the Java Virtual Machine

## Titles

* Knight Bachelor (Kt), part of the British honours system
* Knight of the Thistle (KT), a member of the Order of the Thistle
* Knight Templar, top degree of York Rite system - freemansory

## Other uses

* "Kept Term" as in ATKT (Allowed to keep terms), used in Indian education system
* KT, acronym for Knowledge transfer, transferring knowledge from one part of an organization to another
* Kaituozhe (rocket family), which uses the prefix KT
* Kennitala (kt.), the Icelandic identification number